The polls in Michigan aren't even closed and Mitt Romney already sounds like he's trying to spin defeat:
Romney: "Republicans have to recognize theres a real effort to kidnap our primary process."
— @reidepstein via TweetDeck
And earlier this morning, Romney went on Fox to call Democratic crossover voting an "outrage" and a "dirty trick." Of course, Republicans have invited Democrats to participate in the Michigan primary, unlike in Massachusetts where only registered independents can vote in either party's primary.
Of course, as Markos noted earlier, just one month ago the very same Mitt Romney who is today complaining about Democrats accepting the GOP's invitation to vote in Michigan was bragging about having registered as an independent so that he could meddle in Democratic primaries in Massachusetts.
Here's what Mitt Romney said on January 26, 2012:
In my state of Massachusetts, you could register as an independent and go vote in which -- either primary happens to be very interesting. And any chance I got to vote against Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, I took.
And here's what Romney said on February 18, 2007:
When there was no real contest in the Republican primary, I’d vote in the Democrat primary, vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for the Republican.
As Romney
would say, what was sauce for the goose is now sauce for the gander.